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hawkish

adjective

Definition of hawkishnext
as in warlike

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Recent Examples of hawkish Perceived as being slow to react during the pandemic, central bankers are more hawkish this time around, suggesting hikes will come faster and more frequently. — Brendan Ruberry, semafor.com, 21 Sep. 2026 Then Chairman Kevin Warsh delivered a surprise — a decidedly hawkish message that opened the door to additional rate hikes as the central bank looks to snuff out stubbornly high inflation. — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 17 Sep. 2026 Although most of the migrants returned to Morocco, the government of Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni and other hawkish European leaders used the chaos in Ceuta in July to criticize the migration policies of Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez. — Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2026 But at his Jackson Hole speech on August 28, Warsh dropped the ambiguity, walking through what UBS economists counted as 20 separate hawkish observations. — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for hawkish
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hawkish
  1. warlike
  2. bloodthirsty
  3. militaristic
  4. militarist
  5. martial
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  • Macron says fires are warlike crisis for France Out-of-control wildfires represent France’s greatest crisis since World War II, President Emmanuel Macron said.
    — Mohammed Sergie, semafor.com, 29 July 2026
  • The poem that precedes it, the Iliad, is a cruel and beautiful work, the ultimate story of war; the Odyssey has its warlike passages, but its central energies seem almost commonplace beside the merciless fury of Achilles.
    — David Denby, New Yorker, 21 June 2026
Definition of warlike
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  • Davidsen bucks up her balky husband with a bloodthirsty holler, stiffens her voice against doubt, and, in her final sleepwalking scene, taps into the tender stratum of Lady Macbeth’s subconscious.
    — Justin Davidson, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2026
  • In the show’s two-hour series premiere, host Alan Cumming welcomed 22 appropriately bloodthirsty competitors to his Scottish castle and immediately threw them into the deep end of the loch.
    — Hunter Ingram, Variety, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of bloodthirsty
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  • Some Fascists admired Japan’s use of Shinto shrines and ritual to endow its militaristic nationalism with spiritual power.
    — Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 22 Sep. 2026
  • After 2022, this heroic depiction of Russia acquired a much more openly militaristic tenor.
    — MICHAEL KIMMAGE, Foreign Affairs, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of militaristic
Adjective
  • Japan has neither of such weapons, and yet Japan is labeled neo-militarist.
    — Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 31 May 2026
  • Right, in France, means pro-Catholic, pro-militarist.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 31 Dec. 2025
Definition of militarist
Adjective
  • The advertising operation includes demographic and lifestyle information, such as education, martial status, and household income and makeup, Florida claims.
    — Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2026
  • The families of Texas chiropractor John Giusti, 46, and martial artist Brent Rosenkranz, 42, identified them as the two people whose bodies were recovered, according to Hannah Barricks, a liaison for the families.
    — Greg Norman-Diamond, FOXNews.com, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of martial

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“Hawkish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hawkish. Accessed 28 Sep. 2026.

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